He bought a pair of earrings and a necklace for his wife.

How do I know this? I was taking a break from economics, shopping at a "Holiday Art Mart" organized by these guys, when I ran into Gayla Lee.

 

Gayla makes glass jewelry, and she had just come from another show at St. John's College in Annapolis. A woman had walked up to her table. They talked for a bit. The woman picked out some earrings and a necklace. Then the woman's husband handed over his credit card.

"Usually I ask for people to write their phone number on the receipt," Gayla says. Then she looked at the name and saw it read: Ben Bernanke.

And then she noticed the security guard with the squiggly ear piece.

"I decided I didn't need to ask for his phone number," she says.

Bernanke's daughter goes to St. John's.

If you want to buy your sweetie the same thing the man who can print money buys for his, here's Gayla's website.